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Dodgers-Giants NL West tiebreaker (if needed) will start at 6:08 p.m. PT Monday

Game 163 would be televised by ESPN2

Los Angeles Dodgers v San Francisco Giants Photo by Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images

If the Dodgers and Giants are tied at the end of play Sunday, the Game 163 tiebreaker to decide the National League West would start at 6:08 p.m. PT on Monday, and would be televised by ESPN2.

To force a Game 163, the Dodgers need a win Sunday against the Brewers and a Giants loss to the Padres.

The Giants would host the Dodgers on Monday in a potential tiebreaker, by virtue of winning 10 of 19 games against the Dodgers during the season.

Now the only question is whether Dodgers-Giants would be the only MLB game on Monday. With four teams vying for the two American League wild card spots on Sunday, there could be as many as two extra AL games on Monday as well.

If the Dodgers reach a Game 163 against the Giants, Max Scherzer will start on Monday.

“I don’t see any other way to look at it,” manager Dave Roberts said Sunday. “I think it’s just play to win that game [Monday], and then we’ll kind of figure it out, however that plays out.”